Banshee Windows 95 Driver Kit
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Banshee Driver kit: 1.00.00
Banshee DirectX Driver Version: 2.18
Banshee Win95 2D/3D Display Drivers: 4.10.01.0105-1.00
Banshee Glide 2.X Driver: 2.60.00.0001
Banshee Glide 3.X Driver: 3.10.00.0001
Banshee Control Panel: 1.01
Copyright ( 1998 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. )
All Rights Reserved
NOTE: This software is NOT for general release. Use of this software
is subject to the terms in the 3Dfx license agreement.
3Dfx Interactive, Inc.
OEM Website: http://www.3dfx.com/oem
This product may be covered by one or more of the following
US patents: 5,724,561 5,740,343
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What's in the distribution?
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This distribution contains Voodoo Banshee drivers and control panel for
Windows 95. The DirectDraw portion of the drivers supports Direct3D
when using DirectX 5.0
NOTE: DirectX 5.0 redistributable files should be used with these
drivers!
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Installation
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Requirements
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- Windows 95
- PC with a Pentium, Pentium II, or Pentium Pro Processor and a free
PCI or AGP slot
- 16MB of RAM
Fresh Installation
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NOTE: Complete Steps 1 and 2 before removing your existing 2D card.
1) Extract the files for the Voodoo Banshee driver to a directory.
2) Before removing your existing 2D card switch the video driver to
Standard VGA. Click Start, Control Panel. Double-click on Display.
Select 640X480 and 16 colors. Accept the changes.
3) Power off the system and remove your existing 2D card.
4) Install the Voodoo Banshee Card in a free PCI or AGP Slot
5) Power on the system and verify that video appears during post.
6) Start Windows in Normal mode
(Once Windows starts you may be notified that no video device
exists, click Cancel if this message appears)
7) Windows will detect a new VGA Compatible Display. You need to:
Windows 95 Standard Release users: Select "Use Driver from Mfr"
and click OK. Point to the Win95
directory in the driver
location then click OK again.
Windows 95 OEM SR2 users: Click the Next Button on the
Detection Dialog Box. When notified
that the drivers are not found click
"Other Locations" then enter the path
to the Win95 directory in the driver
location.
8) You may then be prompted to insert the Windows 95 Voodoo Banshee Driver Disk.
Again, enter the path you specified in Step 1 and press OK.
9) Windows will copy the drivers. Reboot the system when prompted
10) Install DirectX 5.0.
Upgrade Existing Voodoo Banshee Drivers
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1) Start Windows 95
2) Extract the files for the Voodoo Banshee driver to a directory.
3) Click Start, Settings, Control Panel. Double-click on Display.
4) Click the Settings tab then click:
Windows 95 Standard Release users: Click "Change Display Type"
Windows 95 OEM SR2 users: Click "Advanced Properties"
5) Then under "Change Display Type/Advanced Display" click "Change"
6) Click "Have Disk" and enter the path specified in Step 2 plus:
Windows 95 Standard Release users: the Win95 directory.
Windows 95 OEM SR2 users: the Win95 directory.
7) When asked to choose a device, select "3Dfx Voodoo Banshee AGP"
8) You may then be prompted to insert the Windows 95 Voodoo Banshee Driver Disk.
Enter the path you specified in Step 2 again.
9) Windows will copy the drivers. Reboot the system when prompted.
10) Install DirectX 5.0
Limitations
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Running 640x480 16 Color will run SUPERVGA.DRV or VGA.DRV. No Voodoo Banshee
features will be used. Switch to a different resolution or color depth.
Full windowed hardware acceleration with this version of the drivers is
only possible when running at 16bpp modes.
Troubleshooting
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Problem: After installing the card, the system still detects my old
card even though it is no longer in the system.
Resolution: See Step 2 of the "Fresh Installation" instructions.
Known Issues
1) Occasionally, when exiting Unreal, you come back to a black screen.
Your system has not crashed. (Workaround: Move the mouse around and
click to regain the desktop back again. To gain all colors back, right
click on the desktop to and select "Properties". Select the Tab for
"Settings". Change from your current display resolution to some other
resolution, then click back on your setting and hit "Apply". For
example: I am running at 800x600, I slide the bar to 640x480, then I
slide the bar back to 800x600 and click "Apply".).
2) When playing Quake/Quake2 changing resolutions after you've begun
the game may result in a crash, with the following error message,
"Server was Killed" (Workaround: Do not attempt to change resolutions,
once you've begun playing the game).
Installation Procedures for the following Games:
Unreal
1) Install Unreal.
2) Download 2 patches. From 3Dfiles, get "unrealpatch101.exe"
at http://www.3dfiles.com/patches/unreal.shtml. Then go to Epic's
Unreal site at http://unreal.epicgames.com/ and click on "Updates &
Patches" on the left and get the files entitled Version 209 Public
Beta (UnrealBeta209.zip)
3) Run the "unrealpatch101.exe" first by double clicking on it.
It will ask the location that Unreal was installed in. Type it in
or browse to it's directory (e.g. C:\Unreal).
4) Once that has completed, unzip the file "UnrealBeta209.zip"
into the directory C:\Unreal\System\ where C: is the drive you have
Unreal installed on.
5) Start Unreal through the Start Menu>Programs>Unreal>Play
Unreal.exe and when it prompts you if you have a 3Dfx card installed,
choose "Yes". When Unreal then tells you that "Unreal is only
compatible with Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 cards…" and asks if you still
want to use your 3Dfx card, choose "Yes".
6) Play Unreal!
Quake
1) Install Quake.
2) Update Quake to latest version, 1.06. Obtain the patch
directly from iD Software, here
http://www.idsoftware.com/quake/index.html. The file is entitled
q101-106.zip
3) Patch your current version of Quake by unzipping the file
into your Quake directory. Overwrite any file and then run patch.exe
4) Obtain the GLQuake exectuable and patch from 3Dfiles.com at
http://www.3dfiles.com/patches/quake.shtml.
5) Run glq1114.exe and install all features.
6) Obtain OpenGL.exe from the OpenGL directory on your CD.
Double click and install the patch.
7) In the directory C:\3Dfx\OpenGL, copy the file 3DfxOGL.dll
into your Quake2 directory. First, rename the file opengl32.dll to
opengl32.bak. Then rename 3Dfxogl.dll to opengl32.dll.
Quake2
1) Install Quake2.
2) Obtain OpenGL.exe from the OpenGL directory on your CD.
Double click and install the patch.
3) In the directory C:\3Dfx\OpenGL, copy the file 3DfxOGL.dll
into your Quake2 directory. First, rename the file ref_gl.dll to
ref_gl.bak. Then rename 3DfxOGL.dll ref_gl.dll.
4) Start the game. From the menu, select Video. For the
driver, choose Default OpenGL and hit apply.
5) Play Quake2!
Hexen2
1) Install Hexen2.
2) Obtain OpenGL.exe from the OpenGL directory on your CD.
Double click and install the patch.
3) In the directory C:\3Dfx\OpenGL, copy the file 3DfxOGL.dll
into your Hexen2 directory. First, rename the file opengl32.dll
to opengl32.bak. Then rename 3Dfxogl.dll to opengl32.dll.
4) Start the game. From the menu, select Video. For the
driver, choose Default OpenGL and hit apply.
5) Play Hexen2!